From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 11:49:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15460 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15409 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA15297; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id OAA12229; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:48:21 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id OAA08415; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:48:21 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:48:21 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: David Wolfskill cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail special configuration In-Reply-To: <199809291658.JAA24145@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 08:37:31 -0400 (EDT) > >From: BEAUPRE Antoine > > >What hostname and/or domain name should I give to my system? > > A registered one (that isn't used by anyone else). how can I see if a name is registered? IS there a database of all the names somewhere on the net? > >What should I change in the sendmail configuration? > > That's not (yet) clear; it's more of an issue of you using a "real" name > & address, and having the IRIX server configured to permit mail to be > relayed from that IP address. I have absolutely no control of the IRIX server configuration. I merely have an account there. > As such, this is more of an > administrative & DNS issue than a sendmail one (as far as what needs to > change). ah. So what should I do? thanks for the reply! +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message